Aloha will become a familiar term for the New Mexico State Aggies in the coming weeks.
NMSU will host Hawaii on Saturday to start an unusual in season home-and-home football series against their former Western Athletic Conference rivals. The Aggies play in Honolulu on Oct. 23.
Scheduling quirks are just part of the landscape for New Mexico State as an FBS independent. The Aggies played home-and-home series with Liberty for back-to-back seasons before losing all of their 2020 fall season to COVID-19.
But the NMSU-Hawaii series has its own share of oddities.
u22c4 Saturday’s game will be homecoming for the Aggies (1-3), who also played at home last week.